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FLOWERING HERBS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE LAWN

Now the lawn can be found almost in any garden area. His popularity is easy to explain, because the lawn for games and recreation, in addition, it is the emerald color of the lawn is an excellent background for any landscape compositions.

A beautiful lawn can not be obtained at every garden site. In the shade, it is practically impossible to create a classic lawn, it grows poorly on dry plots. Maintaining a lawn is not easy. Let's create an alternative lawn.

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Shadow areas

Despite the fact that now on sale you can find lawn mixtures for shady areas, with specially selected types of cereals, nevertheless they can be used only in semi-shady areas, and even then under the condition of constant sowing. In more shady areas, such mixtures do not work, because soon from the lawn sown in such a place, there will be only "patches" of grass.

There is a way out of this situation: we will create special lawns in the shade. They do not need to be cut, because the plants that form them are quite compact and absolutely do not need a haircut. Such a "lawn" does not need to be sown all the time. An obvious advantage is that these plants retain their leaves in winter, so that a decorative effect is provided throughout the year to you.

Agree, very tempting offer.

Let's get acquainted with plants that can create such a lawn.

HARVEST BROWN

Speckled Lamb is an excellent, completely unpretentious evergreen plant. Long, densely covered with leaves creeping shoots are easily rooted, so that soon the nettle will create a dense cover.

OUR REFERENCE

Despite the unpretentiousness of the windmill, it grows best on moist soils. If you are dry enough in the shady garden, it is better to use other plants.

The main highlight of this plant is the spectacular leaves that adorn the garden all year. Their feature is a silver tint. Depending on the variety, the color of the leaves can be different - from silver to almost gold. Of interest are the flowers that appear in late May - early June, often pink, less often white.

PERIWINKLE

Periwinkle small - a plant familiar to many. It can also be used to create shady carpets. The only negative is that the long creeping shoots of the periwinkle form a fairly loose cover. But he also has a very important advantage. Indeed, the periwinkle blooms very beautifully. Vinca flowers are quite large, blue, white or pink.

More often they are simple, although there are terry varieties - “Flore Plena". Periwinkle blooms long enough - from May to June. Also interesting are its evergreen leathery dark green oval-shaped leaves. In garden centers, you can also find variegated varieties - with a white or golden edge.

Our reference

The best place for stonecrops is rockeries, where against the background of stones their beauty is especially manifested. Suitable for creating carpet compositions, rabatok, borders and landscaping slopes.

CARPET FROM SWEET

There is another plant that can also make a real carpet. How do you like a carpet from a dream? Perhaps this prospect will scare you a little, because to dream is an aggressive weed.

This is true, but now variegated varieties have been obtained, which, by the way, grow very slowly.

CUT LIVE

It is unpretentious and vyzhichka creeping.

This evergreen plant can grow both in the sun and in the penumbra. The soils are undemanding.

Consists of pressed to the ground rosettes of leaves, long creeping shoots and upright stems of flower stems up to 20-25 cm.

Long creeping shoots are perfectly rooted, so that the plant grows quite quickly in the suburban area.

LATCHES

Do not forget about the cleaning. Unfortunately, they are unstable to weeds, so the lawn from the cleansing is worth creating as a decoration in a small area.

Among the cleansing, from which you can quickly get a thick carpet, Spanish purification. It forms dense, thick low mats 5-10 cm in height. Numerous oblong small leaves of light green or bluish-red coloration are the main ornament of the plant.

OUR REFERENCE

Purification, forming large (up to 50 cm) bushes: cleaning of cabbage (Sedum telephium); clear clear (Sedum spectabile), blooms in September; Carpathian cleansing (Sedum carpaticum) blooms in July-August. Evergreen cleansing: acrid (Sedum acre); white (Sedum album), runaway (Sedum stoloniferum) - thin-bodied.

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TIPS FROM OUR READERS

If you prefer monophonic compositions, create a carpet from the same variety, if you prefer variety, mix different varieties of clover - and your shady garden will bloom in bright colors.

S. Ignatova, Voronok village

In order to quickly get a lawn from the cleansing, finely crush the stems of plants, as if cutting a salad. Then you can spread it all around the site, squeeze it and pour it. In two weeks the plants will take root, and a month later you will be provided with a lawn.

O. Petrovykh, settlement Selyatino

FLOWERING LAWN: WE CREATE BEAUTY

You can often see photographs of a lawn decorated with flowers in fashionable landscape design magazines. Delicate daffodils, charming tulips, bright muscari and other flowering plants look gorgeous against a green background.

Do you want the same one? Then in the new season, select a small area of your favorite lawn - and take action!

When creating a flowering lawn, consider the following points.

Species or varieties of plants that are spectacular in flower beds do not always look attractive among dense greenery. Some flowers quickly become smaller and fall out, or even cannot break through the dense layer of turf of cereal grasses.

It is advisable to choose plants that can live in one place for a long time without transplanting. These, for example, include many small-bulbous species (snowdrops, scillas).

Flowers that easily self-sow are good (blue, muscari, corydalis). They renew themselves and do not require special care. However, it must be taken into account that most bulbous species bloom only in the 3rd or 4th year.

Plants with large leaves, as well as those requiring frequent replanting or annual digging (crocuses, tulips), are best placed in a small clump at the edge of the lawn. If they are left unattended, the flowering will quickly weaken.

It is advisable to mark the area where the flowers are planted so as not to trample it in the summer and go around it with a mower for the first time after flowering. For example, a barrel hoop or any low curb dug into the ground so that it does not stand out above the grass and does not interfere with the lawn mower will do.

IDEAL COMPANIONS

Plant small-bulbed primroses - scilla, snowdrop, muscari, whiteflower - in groups directly under the turf. In the designated place, cut the turf in the shape of the letter “H”, fold back the edges, as if opening the window sashes. Add a little compost or humus, a handful of ash, and complex mineral fertilizer to the ground and mix. Bury the bulbs into the prepared soil, cover with turf, pressing it down, and water generously.

PLANTING DEPTH IS USUALLY CALCULATED AS THREE HEIGHTS OF THE BULB. FOR PRIMFLOWERS – FROM 6 TO 10 CM (DEPENDING ON SIZE)

Individual bulbs can be planted by making holes in the lawn using a wide fork or narrow trowel. Fill the holes with loose compost, place the bulbs in them and sprinkle with soil. Traditional bulbous crops - daffodil and tulip - place along the edge of the lawn or plant in groups, freeing these areas from turf. Plant low varieties under trees or in areas with sparse grass. Plant tulips that require annual (or at least once every two years) digging in special lattice baskets. Remove a piece of turf that fits the size of the basket, add sand to the bottom of the hole, fill the basket with a mixture of soil and sand, place the bulbs in it, taking into account the optimal planting depth of about 10 cm, place it in the hole and cover with turf.

Moorish lawn

An interesting option for decorating a personal plot is a Moorish lawn. A lawn strewn with flowers from spring to autumn looks very elegant and can even replace a traditional flower garden. It is easier to care for such grass, but you won’t be able to play football on it or take a leisurely walk (most of the plants that are part of the mixture for a Moorish lawn cannot tolerate trampling).

A ready-made mixture for a Moorish lawn is not cheap, so it is more profitable to make it yourself. Focus on the ratio: 80-90% grass seeds and 10-20% flowers. Use flowers such as poppy, field cornflower, meadow chamomile, eschscholzia, calendula (marigold), large-flowered flax, matthiola bicorne, oriental poppy, mountain onion, daisy, sea lobularia, forget-me-not, columbine, gypsophila annual, viscaria, bluebell, speedwell. Grasses: meadow bluegrass, thin bentgrass, red fescue, perennial ryegrass, red clover, meadow timothy.

Moorish lawn.

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Alena Semenova, Moscow Society.
04/09/2016 (18:41) #

I always wanted to have a nice lawn around the house. The first attempts to realize the dream turned out to be not very successful: the grass grew thin, in the spring there appeared a lot of splints "the ground quickly became uneven. Probably, the plants bought at random were not too good for our conditions. It turned out that in an uneven climate it is better to sow the lawn not with one crop but with a mixture of herbs. As a result, the best set was this.

The polevole is thin - already in the 1st year it gives a lot of thin shoots that give the lawn an elegant look. Seedlings appear 9-14 days after sowing, and after a month they begin to grow abundantly. It grows well on infertile, slightly acidic and peaty soils. It prefers wet weather; in hot summer it requires watering. The sod forms a loose, so by
A lawn from a single bent is better not to go once again.
• Red fescue - does not grow too fast, forms dense greens only in the 2nd year. Therefore, it is better to use it in a mixture with fast-growing herbs. But he lives a long time, up to 8 years. Fescue is very unpretentious to the composition of the soil,

Bluegrass meadow - also grows slowly. Until full adulthood, when a dense turf is formed, several years pass. But then, the bluegrass lawn will delight the hosts for a long time, about 10 years. It can be mowed very low, the plant is practically not affected by rot and other diseases. Bluegrass easily tolerates any vagaries of the climate: frosty or wet winters, summer drought, autumn damp. The turf is dense, you can walk on the lawn.